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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.