I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

I think I am mad sometimes.

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.