The Appointment [in Harvard] Gave Me Economic

Hope For A Great Sea-change Timid To Rebuke And Too Petty To Forgive.

The Most Exhilarating For The Writer And The Reader, Are Gift-things-poems Which Arrive On Their Own Energy, Poems That In William Shakespeare's Term "slip" From You.

If Self Is A Location, So Is Love.

I Have Always Thought Of Poems As Stepping Stones In One's Own Sense Of Oneself.

Publication Is Rather Like Pushing The Boat Out; Then The Boat/book Turns Into A Melting Ice Floe And You Have To Conjure A Second Boat Which Again Turns Into A Melting Floe Under Your Feet. All The Stepping Stones That You Conjure Disappear Under The Water Behind You.