People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.

Time passes. That's for sure.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.