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

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

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.

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.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

All poetry comes from repetition.

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