I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Let your words to be a cushion to those who are around you, especially to those who are in a vulnerable state.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Common law is common right.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.