You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets..

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be sat….

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising,….

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it..

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each ot….

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation..

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry..

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel..

It takes a long time to publish a book..

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal..

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur..

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean ab….