It's Not As If I'm Trying To

One Will Never Again Look At A Birch Tree, After The Robert Frost Poem, In Exactly The Same Way.

We Simply Have Not Kept In Touch With Poetry

What I Try To Do Is To Go Into A Poem - And One Writes Them, Of Course, Poem By Poem - To Go Into Each Poem, First Of All Without Having Any Sense Whatsoever Of Where It's Going To End Up

Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How People Are Going To Read.

I Believe That These Devices Like Repetition And Rhyme Are Not Artificial, That They're Not Imposed, Somehow, On The Language.