AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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.

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

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

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.