. American poet; US Poet Laureate 1963–64 & 1988–90; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1978
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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Go to Quote / Comment
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application -- why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. Go to Quote / Comment
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. Go to Quote / Comment
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? Go to Quote / Comment
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Go to Quote / Comment