A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

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

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."

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

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