I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.