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

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

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

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

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

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.

It takes a long time to publish a book.