After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. ↗
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. ↗
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗
If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at. ↗