Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

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

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

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