I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.