Whitman-under-glass (from Linebreak)

-Are formal aspects the loom the text is woven across, or the skeleton upholding the flesh?

-Do you regard poems as gems to be polished and ultimately mounted, or plants to be cultivated and ultimately abandoned?

-Do you advance poetry along a ladder of promotion, or do you encourage poetry to replicate itself as if a genetic strain?

-Is your ultimate legacy as a poet measured in pages, or in faces?