I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture…

- Jan Clausen

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

- Jan Clausen

You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.

- Jan Clausen

... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, i…

- Jan Clausen

we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for gra…

- Jan Clausen