"James Dickey - Profile at Poets.org"

"All hail, Macpherson! hail to thee, Sire of Ossian! The Phantom was begotten by the suing embrace of all im…"

"An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing …"

"When I said. "A rose is a rose is a rose." And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did …"

"One of the real gifts of the inauguration was realizing that my story, my mother’s story, the immigrant sto…"

"Martin Ransohoff had to sell Roman on the idea of even considering me for the film. He arranged for the two…"

"Night fell. I looked for a word like mine, a word to lean upon, a word to sustain me. And it seemed to me t…"