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

In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

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.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country