The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.
“I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.”
“Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.”