One is always nearer by not keeping still.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!