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

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

All poetry comes from repetition.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.