Good Writing Gives Energy, Whatever It Is

When You Translate Poetry In Particular, You're Obliged To Look At How The Writer With Whom You're Working Puts Together Words, Sentences, Phrases, The Triple Tension Between The Line Of Verse, The Syntax And The Sentence.

I Try To Write Everyday. I Do That Much Better Over Here Than When I'm Teaching. I Always Rewrite, Usually Fairly Close-on Which Is To Say First Draft, Then Put It Aside For 24 Hours Then More Drafts.

Poetry Seems To Have Been Eliminated As A Literary Genre, And Installed Instead, As A Kind Of Spiritual Aerobic Exercise - Nobody Need Read It, But Anybody Can Do It.

I've Been An Inveterate Reader Of Literary Magazines Since I Was A Teenager. There Are Always Discoveries. You're Sitting In Your Easy Chair, Reading; You Realize You've Read A Story Or A Group Of Poems Four Times, And You Know, Yes, I Want To Go Farther With This Writer.

Everyone Thinks They're Going To Write One Book Of Poems Or One Novel.