Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

- Ron Padgett

It's fun to have a crush on somebody, even one that lasts only fifteen seconds. In New York I can go down the street and have a crush on somebody com…

- Ron Padgett

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.

- Ron Padgett

Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had …

- Ron Padgett

Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an …

- Ron Padgett

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

- Ron Padgett

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware of. Plus we had a good time. It's …

- Ron Padgett

I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This manuscript is …

- Ron Padgett

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

- Ron Padgett