The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.