I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.