Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

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.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry