Occupation: Poet Birth: October 12, 1908 Death: March 22, 1991
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we li….
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State….
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages..
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architec….
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they w….
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but t….
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa t….
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That mean….
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of Jul….
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love..
Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder..
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and….
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat..