I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
From Howard Nemerov
I have a plot, but not much happens.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
Language cares.
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