Mark Strand

"I don't know where it comes from. I think some of it comes from the unconscious. Sometimes it is more complete than other times."

"I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the …"

"A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence."

"Full interview with Wallace Shawn"

"The elements I need to write are a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. ... I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing al…"

"I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript."