I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

I am! I have come through! I belong!