A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
“But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.”
“I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.”