"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age"

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets"

"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours"

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate"