Q : Getting back to this idea of the crea­tive insights being iso­la­ted from the medium. Are you saying that all poe­try has to be writ­ten this way, or that some poe­try is writ­ten this way, or what ?

JS : Well, I cer­tain­ly don’t know. If you mean it as a recipe for baking a cake, obvious­ly no. If you mean belie­ving in all of this, obvious­ly no. But it’s my firm convic­tion that all poe­try, good poe­try, is writ­ten this way, in spite of the poet.