Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't ….

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in th….

This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to h….

All poetry comes from repetition..

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may b….

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wi….

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was….

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation..

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time..

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in..

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a V….

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or ….

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced..

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves..

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise..

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling..

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet..

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read ….

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say….

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in….

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work..