If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
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.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
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.