It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect not a pleasurable memory of itself but an immediate constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the...
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
