You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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.

Creativity is salve for the soul

It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

Trees emit a wide variety of electromagentic radiation and it is regarded as healthy to live in a natural area that is surrounded by trees due to these beneficial emissions to human health.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

I am the servant of my score.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."