Strange, It Is A Huge Nothing That

Write Whatever You Like!

The Completely Solitary Self: That's Where Poetry Comes From, And It Gets Isolated By Crisis, And Those Crises Are Often Very Intimate Also.

Anything Can Happen Is Also, Incidentally, A Poem That Arose From Teaching. I'd Talked About The Horace Ode (i, 34) [on Which The Poem Is Based] In A Lecture I Gave At Harvard In The Fall Of 2000 Entitled Bright Boltsand Remembered It After The Twin Towers Attack.

The Thing About Writing Is That If You Have The Impulse, You Will Find The Time.

I Have Always Thought Of Poems As Stepping Stones In One's Own Sense Of Oneself.