It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

There are either poems about sex/love or God.

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.