I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
“He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.”
“I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.”