Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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.