"To say a poet is to be condemned or inaccessible because she invokes some fields of vision which we have difficulty i…"

"I try to make a distinction between enjoyment and joy. You are only prepared to enjoy what you already have a taste f…"

"I contrast hierarchy with hegemony , the juxtaposition of the real & surreal"

"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are…"

"I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this t…"

"The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to co…"

"I think intelligence has a kind of range of sense and allows us to contemplate the coexistence of the conceptual aspe…"

"I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are finally responsible for what they do. They are ent…"

"It is to be hoped—I mean, I hope—that the poetry I have been writing since 1992 squares up to, takes the measure of, …"

"The idea that you write to express yourself seems to me revolting. The idea that you write to glorify or to make glor…"