"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"

"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…"

"Poetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the indi…"