So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.