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I feel very connected to poets across the country.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.