A Terrible Thing About Getting Oldish Is

And In A Way, That's Been A Help To Me, Because I Take Great Passions For A Particular Poet - Sometimes It Lasts For Many Years, Sometimes Only For A While. This Happens To Everybody.

I Learned Words, I Learned Words; But Half Of Them Died From Lack Of Exercise. And The Ones I Use Often Look At Me With A Look That Whispers, Liar.

A Terrible Thing About Getting Oldish Is That Your Friends Start Dying, And In The Last Ten Years I Have Lost Seven Or Eight Of My Closest.

I Never Think About Poetry Except When I'm Writing It. I Mean My Poetry.

I Was Very Interested In American Poetry For Many Years. Much Less Now.