I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. ↗
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. ↗
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗