I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.