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

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

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

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

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

There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.

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