ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

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.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention