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.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.