If You Want To Know How Much

Maybe There Are Three Or Four Really Good Poets In A Generation.

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 Love Painting And Music, Of Course. I Don't Know Nearly As Much About Them As I Know About Poetry. I've Certainly Been Influenced By Fiction. I Was Overwhelmed By War And Peace When I Read It, And I Didn't Read It Until I Was In My Late 20s.

Picasso Said Once When Being Interviewed That One Should Not Be One's Own Connoisseur.

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