I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation.

Everyone in their car needs love..

Poetry is a necessity of life..

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so..

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one..

One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbo….

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life..

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the….

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within i….

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.….

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibili….

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified..

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile..

I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This does not mean I have….

Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a c….

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, t….