All poetry comes from repetition.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

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.

He raised his wine for a toast. “To the Exquisite Nightmare.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

I love working in the theater.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.