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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.