"At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I w..." — Mary Oliver

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.