In Some Ways I'm A Reticent Man,

When I Go Fishing I Like To Know That There's Nobody Within Five Miles Of Me.

However, I Learned Something. I Thought That If The Young Person, The Student, Has Poetry In Him Or Her, To Offer Them Help Is Like Offering A Propeller To A Bird.

I Said I Have No Powers Of Invention. Well, I Also Have No Powers Of Mimicry.

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.

All I Write About Is What's Happened To Me And To People I Know, And The Better I Know Them, The More Likely They Are To Be Written About.