If self is a location, so is love.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

Write whatever you like!

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.