Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.