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

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

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

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 is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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