With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

1. You must let the pain visit.2. You must allow it teach you3. You must not allow it overstay.(Three routes to healing)

Who are you?All I see of you is the shape you leave behind. The world is an engine for logging your desires. In these days you don't have identity

Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

The brave are always stubborn

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.