As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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.

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

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