The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

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.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

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.

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