"People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money."
"The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry."
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"Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America."
"I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form."
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