A. R. Ammons

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.