I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

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

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

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

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