If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.
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.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.
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'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.