All poetry comes from repetition.

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

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

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

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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.

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