As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

I have wished you something None of the others would.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Here is an unfenced existance