I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.