It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.