Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention...
Clearly once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of...
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed...
When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the...
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry but there's no way...
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...
You are almost not free if you are teaching a group of graduate students to...
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26 which was just a...
Of the individual poems some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.