Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.