I Wish I Could Press Snowflakes In

The Aim Of The Poet, Or Other Artist, Is First To Make Something; And It's Impossible To Make Something Out Of Words And Not Communicate

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.

One Tends To Write Beyond What's Needed

I Do Not Usually Revise Much, Though I Often Cut, Particularly The End Or Toward The End Of A Poem