The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.
Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that wasn't the territory of poetry. I think that's pretty smart. I think that it doesn't need to be altogether true, but that was my starting place.