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.

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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

All poetry comes from repetition.

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

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

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.