When I Go Fishing I Like To

When I Was A Teacher, Teachers Would Come Into My Classroom And Admire My Desk On Which Lay Nothing Whatever, Whereas Theirs Were Heaped With Papers And Books.

I Only Keep Books That I Like Very Much. Otherwise I'd Throw Them Out.

In Fact A Lot Of Them I Think Are Absolute Baloney. Those Charles Olsens And People Like That. At First I Was Interested In Seeing What They Were Up To, What They Were Doing, Why They Were Doing It. They Never Moved Me In The Way That One Is Moved By True Poetry.

When I Go Fishing I Like To Know That There's Nobody Within Five Miles Of Me.

I Don't Think Of Myself All The Time.