I Got Married, Other People Went Off.

All Poetry Comes From Repetition.

I Love Painting And Music, Of Course. I Don't Know Nearly As Much About Them As I Know About Poetry. I've Certainly Been Influenced By Fiction. I Was Overwhelmed By War And Peace When I Read It, And I Didn't Read It Until I Was In My Late 20s.

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.

It Takes A Long Time To Publish A Book.

You Can't Be Too Influenced By A Great Poet. You Simply Have To Live Through It.