I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
