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 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 don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

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

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.