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

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

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.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

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