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.

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.

I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.

Your uncle, " Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

I am a believer in change peu a' peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.