Poetry Is A Fireplace In Summer Or

Poetry Is A Fireplace In Summer Or A Fan In Winter.

When I Began Writing Poems, It Was In The Late 60s And Early 70s When The Literary And Cultural Atmosphere Was Very Much Affected By What Was Going On In The World, Which Was, In Succession, The Civil Rights Movement, The Antiwar Movement, And The Women's Movement In The 60s, 70s, And Into The Early 80s. And All Of Those Things Affected Me And Affected My Thinking, Particularly The Vietnam War.

Writing Is An Incessant Process Of Discovery.

Environmental Regulation Looked Like It Was Going To Be Under Serious Attack, And They Were Giving All Of Those Speeches About Getting Government Off People's Backs.

Poetry Is A Man Arguing With Himself; Rhetoric Is A Man Arguing With Others.