“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”

“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”

“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”

“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.”

“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”