My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

until only infinity remained of beauty

I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.