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

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'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.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

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

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.