I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Everybody is very excited about it. It's a very good foal and [Strom Flag Flying] is an excellent mother.

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.

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

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

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.