When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

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

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

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

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

I don't think of myself all the time.

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