All Poetry Comes From Repetition.

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 About Politics As It's Understood On Television And In Newspapers.

Picasso Said Once When Being Interviewed That One Should Not Be One's Own Connoisseur.

I Never Thought Of Myself As A New York Poet Or As An American Poet.

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 Wife Janice... Mainly For My Poet Friends And My Wife, Who Was Very Smart About Poetry.

Summer In The Trees! “it Is Time To Strangle Several Bad Poets.