Poetry Is Language In Orbit.

Write Whatever You Like!

The Appointment [in Harvard] Gave Me Economic Safety, Writerly Support, And Intellectual Self-respectplus Eight Months To Myself Every Year.

If You Have The Words, There's Always A Chance That You'll Find The Way.

Wherever That Man Went, He Went Gratefully.

Poetry Cannot Afford To Lose Its Fundamentally Self-delighting Inventiveness, Its Joy In Being A Process Of Language As Well As A Representation Of Things In The World.