If a poem is not memorable there's probably something wrong. One of the...
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences...
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible...
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe...
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor....
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that...
Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that...
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read...
Off with you! You're a happy fellow for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!