Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.