Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988
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Source: Poetry and ambition: essays, 1982-88
“Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.”
Source: WRITING WELL
Source: WRITING WELL
Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
“I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.”
Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006
Source: Old and New Poems
“Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.”
“You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.”
Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006
“We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.”
Source: The Old Life
“The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.”
“Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.”
“I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.”
Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
“The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.”
Source: Claims for Poetry
Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988
“But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
“Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.”
Source: Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews
“The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
“I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
Source: Life Work
Source: Life Work