All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble