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

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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.

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.