Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

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

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

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

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

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.