However, If A Poem Can Be Reduced

It Is Always Pleasant To Learn That Someone Takes An Interest In A Work Which One Enjoyed Writing

One Tends To Write Beyond What's Needed

In The Past I Have Declined To Comment On My Own Work: Because, It Seems To Me, A Poem Is What It Is; Because A Poem Is Itself A Definition, And To Try To Redefine It Is To Be Apt To Falsify It; And Because The Author Is The Person Least Able To Consider His Work Objectively

It Seems To Me That Readers Sometimes Make The Genesis Of A Poem More Mysterious Than It Is (by That I Perhaps Mean, Think Of It As Something Outside Their Own Experience)

I Wish I Could Press Snowflakes In A Book Like Flowers.