A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.


The Paris Review, "Writers at Work: 4th series," interview with Peter Buckman and William Fifield (1969).


A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.