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 don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

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.

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

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

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.

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