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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

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

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.