The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
From Howard Nemerov
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
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