Poetry Dovetails Contradictions.

I Don't Know Whether A Poem Has Be There To Help To Develop Something. I Think It's There For Itself, For What The Reader Finds In It.

Everyone Thinks They're Going To Write One Book Of Poems Or One Novel.

When You Translate Poetry In Particular, You're Obliged To Look At How The Writer With Whom You're Working Puts Together Words, Sentences, Phrases, The Triple Tension Between The Line Of Verse, The Syntax And The Sentence.

There Is Something Very Satisfactory About Being In The Middle Of Something.

The Phenomenon Of University Creative Writing Programs Doesn't Exist In France. The Whole Idea Is Regarded As A Novelty, Or An Oddity.