When I'm Writing, I Like To Seal

I Lived In New York For A Couple Months. It Seemed To Me At First An Incredibly Clean Place With Well-dressed People And Washed Cars And Bright-painted Red-and-yellow Streetcars And White Buildings.

I've Always Felt, As A Writer, That Radicals Are Fascinating Because They're Relations, They Have A Place In The American Family. They're The Relatives Everyone Wishes Would Go Away. They're The Embarrassments To Decorum And Good Taste.

It Is The Immigrant Hordes Who Keep This Country Alive, The Waves Of Them Arriving Year After Year.... Who Believes In America More Than The People Who Run Down The Gangplank And Kiss The Ground?

Poems Have Ideas. The Ideas Of Poems Come Out Of Their Emotions And Their Emotions Are Carried On Images.

Facts Are The Images Of History, Just As Images Are The Facts Of Fiction.