When Robert Frost Was Alive,

That So Much Of Our Experience, Or The Stereotype Which Passes For It Should Be Dealt With By Means Of The Short Story Is Perhaps A Symptom Not Unnoticeable Elsewhere In The Public Domain Of An Unlovely Cynicism About Human Character.

Shakespeare Tells The Same Stories Over And Over In So Many Guises That It Takes A Long Time Before You Notice.

I Do Insist On Making What I Hope Is Sense So There's Always A Coherent Narrative Or Argument That The Reader Can Follow.

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.

It May Be Said That Poems Are In One Way Like Icebergs: Only About A Third Of Their Bulk Appears Above The Surface Of The Page.