The Aim Of The Poet,

I Wish I Could Press Snowflakes In A Book Like Flowers.

The Aim Of The Poet, Or Other Artist, Is First To Make Something; And It's Impossible To Make Something Out Of Words And Not Communicate

However, If A Poem Can Be Reduced To A Prose Sentence, There Can't Be Much To It.

In The Past I Have Declined To Comment On My Own Work: Because, It Seems To Me, A Poem Is What It Is; Because A Poem Is Itself A Definition, And To Try To Redefine It Is To Be Apt To Falsify It; And Because The Author Is The Person Least Able To Consider His Work Objectively

I Do Not Usually Revise Much, Though I Often Cut, Particularly The End Or Toward The End Of A Poem