All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.