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

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.

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

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

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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.