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"You continue it the same way you continue writing poems. The impulse that informs a lyrical critique is, for me, not that far from the impulse that informs the occasion of a poem. You want to move someone in the way you were moved by the writing you read. You want to have the effect on others that the writing had on you. You will necessarily have to sound like you, as I will have to sound like me, even though you want to sound out the movements of the work that you learn from and which inhabits you. As you hear Hollander in each review, I should hear Sakkis. No doubt. It’s like any relationship: the lyric you take is equal to the lyric you make.”"