I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry....
I heard Nirvana and discovered that songs could be like poetry but a little...
I've always written. When I was in school the only teacher who ever liked me...
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound both aloud...
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been...
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry as in fiction. I just think it's...
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of...
My next project is to get back to that. Actually to learn how to write...
Well I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven writing...
Well the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the...
I published privately a collection of my serious poetry I had written over...
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile even though...
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry unless of course the life...
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is not to lie but...
And yet in a culture like ours which is given to material comforts and...
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear...
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of...
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal...
Poetry is something that happens in universities in creative writing...
Poetry is first and last language - the rest is filler.
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the...
I was member of the Diet as long as it existed until May 1933.
