We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.