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Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death murdered me,

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When in the sea-light every early game Was played with love and, if death's waters came,...

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Two months dead, I wrestle with your name Whose separate letters make a paltry sum That is not you.

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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Last night I watched my brothers play, The gentle and the reckless one,...

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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

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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.

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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

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I saw a way that I could write fiction about my own experience and things that I've done and imagined. I was very interested to be writing these stories because I found that, like a certain kind of magnet, writing prose picked up details that my poetry had never been able to pick up.

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I discovered modern poetry I think quite late, when I was 17, through an anthology, a Louis Untermeyer anthology. Of course, I was crazy about modern poetry as soon as I discovered it.

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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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It's not that I was indifferent ot the horrors of war, because that's what inspired the poem to a large extent, but I couldn't write about them.

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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

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I've written fiction before... I had tried to write stories, almost true stories before, but I never had found a way to do it.

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