A Lot Happens By Accident In Poetry.

I Am Not At All Clear What Free Verse Is Anymore. That's One Of The Things You Learn Not To Know.

Till I, High In The Tower Of My Time Among Familiar Ruins, Began To Cry For Accident, Sickness, Justice, War And Crime, Because All Died, Because I Had To Die. The Snow Fell, The Trees Stood, The Promise Kept, And A Child I Slept.

A Teacher Is A Person Who Never Says Anything Once.

The Nice Thing About The Bible Is It Doesn't Give You Too Many Facts. Two An A Half Lines And It Tells You The Whole Story And That Leaves You A Great Deal Of Freedom To Elaborate On How It Might Have Happened.

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.