Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

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

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.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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.

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

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