Stories Are The Reproductive Organs Of Language.

How Much Money You Get, Depends On Lots Of Extraneous Things. It Depends On How Good You Are At Turning Poetry Into A Marketable Product, Which Is Something It Was Never Supposed To Be. That's Why Many People Suppose That The Better The Poet You Are The Lower Your Income Should Be, And That's Probably True.

It Isn't So Unusual For Poems To Situate Themselves Out Of Doors - Though They May, At The Same Time, Be Set In An Interior World: Not Inside The House But Inside The Mind And Body Of Writer And Reader.

If Language Is Lost, Humanity Is Lost. If Writing Is Lost, Certain Kinds Of Civilization And Society Are Lost, But Many Other Kinds Remain - And There Is No Reason To Think That Those Alternatives Are Inferior.

I Think Of Something Quite Different From A Snapshot. I Know Of A Lot Of Poems, Some Very Fine Ones, That Are Like Snapshots, But I'm More Interested In Poetry That Is Like An Endless Film, Long Stories, Things That Weave Together Many Different Strands, Like A Big Piece Of Cloth, Not Like A Photograph.

Drop A Word In The Ocean Of Meaning And Concentric Ripples Form. To Define A Single Word Means To Try To Catch Those Ripples. No One’s Hands Are Fast Enough.