If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

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."