I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

You often feel about something in Shakespeare or Dostoevsky that nobody ever said such a thing, but it's just the sort of thing people would say if they could …

His dogmatism is more wild and personal than we are accustomed to, completely unspoiled by the hedging 'equanimity' that weakens the style and temperament of s…

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided that forty-eight percent of all Americans read, during …

The engines that have driven poetry's institutional success - the explosion of academic writing programs, the proliferation of subsidized magazines and presses…