I praise the scoring drought, the flying dust the drying creek, the furious animal, that they oppose us still; that we are ruined by the thing we kill.
Only thing I had to treasure was poetry and the knowledge that I was going to be a poet.
The true function of art and culture is to interpret us to ourselves, and to relate us to the country and the society in which we live.
Poetry needs a background in which emotional, as well as material values are given their due weight.
Appreciation of poetry, one out of 10 or whatever it might be, is quite alien to what a poet feels about poetry.