All Poetry Comes From Repetition.

It Takes A Long Time To Publish A Book.

As I Look Over My Work, I Mean Every Time I Look Over My Early Work, I See, Yes, I Could Do That Then And Then I Could Do That And That... That May Be The Hardest Thing For A Writer, At Least For A Poet, To Tell What The Identity Of His Work Is.

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 Satisfied With Too Little.

It Seems Everything Is So Full Of Possibilities One Can Hardly Take It All In.

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