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

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

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.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

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

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.