Philip Larkin Has A Tough Honesty And

One Of The Biggest Changes That Ever Occurred In My Life Was Going From The Isolation Of Working Part-time As A House Painter In Henderson County, To Cornell, Where Everybody Was A Literary Person.

If A Poem Is Not Memorable, There's Probably Something Wrong. One Of The Problems Of Free Verse Is That Much Of The Free Verse Poetry Is Not Memorable.

I Love To Create Interesting Textures With Language. You Can Do It As Long As It Seems Like A Discovery.

Young Writers Find Their First Audience In Little Magazines, And Experimental Writers Find Their Only Audience There.

One Of The Most Powerful Devices Is To Distort Time, To Go From Human Time To Atomic Time, Geologic Time. Sometimes You Can Actually Accomplish That, With One Unexpected Word Choice.