Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.