A Lot Happens By Accident In Poetry.

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.

Mostly The Thought And The Verse Come Inseparably. In My Poem Poetics, It's As Close As I Come To Telling How I Do It.

I Have A Plot, But Not Much Happens.

The Historian Is Terribly Responsible To What He Can Discern Are The Facts Of The Case, But He's Nothing If He Doesn't Make Out A Case.

[t]eaching Has Been For Me An Education (lord Knows What It Has Been For My Students).