What Is Modesty But Inverted Pride?

I Did Not Think Of Writing As A Career And I Don't Think That I Did This Ever Really, But I Think Of Writing As Something That I Could Do, I Should Do Alongside Whatever Else I Was Doing. It Simply Grew On Me.

In America There Is Really Very Little Knowledge Of The Literature Of The Rest Of The World. Of The Literature Of Latin America, Yes, But That's Not All That Different In Inspiration From That Of America, Or Of Europe. One Must Go Further. You Don't Even Have To Go Too Far In Terms Of Geography - You Can Start With The Native Americans And Listen To Their Poetry.

I Teach Literature. That's Easy For Me. Take Someone Else's Work And Talk About It.

Poetry And Slave Trading Cannot Be Bedfellows. That's Where I Stand.

One Would Think He Never Sucked At His Mother’s Breast.