I Would Talk In Iambic Pentameter If

We Think About Sex Obsessively Except During The Act, When Our Minds Tend To Wander.

I Liked The Kid Who Wrote Me That He Had To Do A Term Paper On A Modern Poet And He Was Doing Me Because, Though They Say You Have To Read Poems Twice, He Found He Could Handle Mine In One Try.

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.

Both Poet And Painter Want To Reach The Silence Behind The Language, The Silence Within The Language. Both Painter And Poet Want Their Work To Shine Not Only In Daylight But (by Whatever Illusionist Magic) From Within.

A Lot Happens By Accident In Poetry.