Poetry Is A Deliberate Attempt To Make

One Day The Nouns Were Clustered In The Street. An Adjective Walked By, With Her Dark Beauty. The Nouns Were Struck, Moved, Changed. The Next Day A Verb Drove Up, And Created The Sentence.

I Got Married, Other People Went Off. We Had Sort Of Another Public-we Were Our Entire Readership For Many Years, And We Were Very Excited By Each Other.

When You Get An Idea, Go And Write. Don't Waste It In Conversation.

I Never Thought Of Myself As A New York Poet Or As An American Poet.

If You Want To Know How Much I Love And Care For You, Count The Waves.