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'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.

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

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.

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

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

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