Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.