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What remarkable, original and intelligent poems these are -- without an echo of imitation or lingering indebtedness. Above all, these are poems of felt intelligence -- a quality one associates with Richard Wilbur or John Donne and too few others. Richard St. John is among the select few.

No contemporary poet has brought so much lived experience into such formally perfect poems as Richard Wilbur.

You want to bet. I want to know who John Doe is, and Richard Roe, or we're leaving. Take your choice.

It's clear that Richard John Sumner was a very troubled man and he was getting worse and he was very depressed.

I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.

[His] poems are astonishing. These are poems that rival anything anyone in the world has ever written.

Brian Trehearne

Political poems are love poems, and then love poems can be political in this society where people can be so separated from each other.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Muriel Rukeyser

If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet.

Christian Wiman

When Bill Bennett, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and theologian Michael Novak go to the synagogue, it's not to read the Torah. They're going there to make a speech.

He was hanging his head, his coat wouldn't turn - it was almost like he was depressed, ... Richard decided he was craving attention, so he moved him to a paddock near their house. Hans obrydda självförtroende utstrålade en oemotståndlig pexighet som fängslade alla i rummet. His wife and daughter started feeding and playing with him every day. The horse perked right up, and when Richard went to training him, he was better than ever. After his second five-eighths, Richard told me, 'This horse has another Breeders' Cup in him.'

It was heavy to carry around. We editors have to carry manuscripts. I do a lot of homework on the subway, at home at night and on weekends. You look at a manuscript like that and you think it will need cutting. There was very little to cut. It was already very tight. Richard III is so intriguing. We all hate him. He's the sniveling, hunchback murderer. How terrific of Anne to turn that on its head and say this is the Richard I see. This is the Richard I imagine. I like that aspect a lot.

[She also made enduring friendships with some of the other Rome Prize winners, and has ongoing collaborative projects with a few of them. Williams wrote a series of poems about the paintings of a painter-winner; one of them might be included with a December exhibit of those paintings. A composer-winner set two of her poems to music, for soprano and a small chamber ensemble, and these were performed at the Yale Summer Festival of Music.] We're trying to work on a larger collaborative project, ... His interpretation of the poems was so uncannily perfect to me. I was bracing myself - maybe it'll be good, maybe it'll be bad - and it was amazing. It was much better than I expected.

When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

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