Don't Be Surprised If I Demur, For,

The Appointment [in Harvard] Gave Me Economic Safety, Writerly Support, And Intellectual Self-respectplus Eight Months To Myself Every Year.

I Can't Think Of A Case Where Poems Changed The World, But What They Do Is They Change People's Understanding Of What's Going On In The World.

Sink Every Impulse Like A Bolt. Secure The Bastion Of Sensation. Do Not Waver Into Language. Do Not Waver In It.

I Always Believed That Whatever Had To Be Written Would Somehow Get Itself Written.

The Bogholes Might Be Atlantic Seepage. The Wet Centre Is Bottomless.