Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

- Richard Meltzer

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable…

- Richard Meltzer

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable…

- Richard Meltzer

One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through …

- Richard Meltzer

No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if this is goi…

- Richard Meltzer

But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say t…

- Richard Meltzer

When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At…

- Richard Meltzer

And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch or lick or smell. And as my …

- Richard Meltzer

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish…

- Richard Meltzer