I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.