It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too