"It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body , one at a time…"

"An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about hi…"

"Each work of art generate its own rules"

"There are no rules but uniformity can make it seem as though there are rules."

"An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a p…"

"Every word is an abstraction or category, not a particular."

"There are no rules. However, principles may be discerned in actual practice; for example, in the way people actually …"

"No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm."

"I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry…"

"I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it’s held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic p…"