I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability….

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Willi….

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went i….

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds..

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot..

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, ….

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world..

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than ….

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. ….

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and s….

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to b….

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an….

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will ….

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work o….

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little….

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this….

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets..