My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.