You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

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

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.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

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

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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