You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.