I Was A Pretty Happy Kid, I

I Think More Influential Than Emily Dickinson Or Coleridge Or Wordsworth On My Imagination Were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies And Looney Tunes Cartoons.

In The Process Of Simplifying Oneself, One Often Discovers The Thing Called Voice.

The Literary World Is So Full Of Pretension, And There's Such An Enormous Gap Between How Seriously Poets Take Themselves And How Widely They're Ignored By Everybody Else.

And I Should Mention The Light Which Falls Through The Big Windows This Time Of Day Italicizing Everything It Touches.

The Trouble With Poetry Is That It Encourages The Writing Of More Poetry.