From What We Cannot Hold The Stars

The Global Warming Is Going On. These Are Not Single Cases. These Are All Part Of A General Way We've Been Looking At The World. As Long As We Look At The World That Way It's Going To Go On. Because The Idea That The Important Thing Is For Some People Get Rich While The Rest Of The People Work For Them Is Very Deeply Dug In...

Your Absence Has Gone Through Me

Any Work Of Art Makes One Very Simple Demand On Anyone Who Genuinely Wants To Get In Touch With It. And That Is To Stop. You've Got To Stop What You're Doing, What You're Thinking, And What You're Expecting And Just Be There For The Poem For However Long It Takes.

I Think It's Good For Anybody To Learn Languages. Americans Are Particularly Limited In That Way. Europeans Less So... We're Beginning To Have Spanish Move In On English In The States Because Of All The People Coming From Hispanic Countries... And We're Beginning To Learn Some Spanish. And I Think That's A Good Thing... Only Having One Language Is Very Limiting... You Get To Think That's The Way The Human Race Is Made; There's Only One Language Worth Speaking... Well, This Isn't Good For English.

Modern Poetry, For Me, Began Not In English At All But In Spanish, In The Poems Of Lorca.