"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

"My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

"The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths."

"In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc."

"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."