“I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.” ThinkingPoet Author:Dan Chiasson
“The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I think it's important that people try not to be false. The ideal would be that everybody says everything in print. I don't know that it's that I'm not afraid.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantOpinionCriticismPrintNot Afraid Author:Dan Chiasson
“The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.” ThinkingLongQualityPoet Author:Dan Chiasson
