Bugs Bunny Is My Muse.

I Think A Good Poem Should Have Some Inscrutable Part. You Can't Quite Explain It. The Poem Can Only Explain Itself To A Certain Limit And At That Point You Enter Into A Little Bit Of Mystery. That For Me Is The Perfect Poem: To Begin In Clarity And To End In Mystery.

There's A Lot Of Unconscious Activity That Goes On I Think In The Composition Of A Poem.

While The Novelist Is Banging On His Typewriter, The Poet Is Watching A Fly In The Windowpane.

I Knew That Poets Seemed To Be Miserable.

Now I Would Say At Any Given Moment In American Life, There Are Probably 45 Poets In Airplanes Vectoring Across The Country Heading Towards...i Don't Know If Anyone's Reading It, But Poets Are Still Flying Around The Country Going From Lectern To Lectern.that Circuitry Has Become Very Well-established.