You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.