Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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

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.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

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

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

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.