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

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

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 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.

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

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