It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.