A Teacher Is A Person Who Never

I Never Abandoned Either Forms Or Freedom. I Imagine That Most Of What Could Be Called Free Verse Is In My First Book. I Got Through That Fairly Early.

Children, To Be Illustrious Is Sad.

When Modern Writers Gave Up Telling Stories, They Gave Up The Greatest Thing We Had.

I've Thought Of The Last Line Of Some Poems For Years And Tried Them Out, It Wouldn't Work Because The Last Line Was Much Too Beautiful For The Poem.

[t]eaching Has Been For Me An Education (lord Knows What It Has Been For My Students).