Ron Padgett

I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the…

— Ron Padgett

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

— Ron Padgett

Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan…

— Ron Padgett

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large…

— Ron Padgett

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware…

— Ron Padgett

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she…

— Ron Padgett

It's fun to have a crush on somebody, even one that lasts only fifteen seconds. In New York I can go down…

— Ron Padgett

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

— Ron Padgett

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.…

— Ron Padgett

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size...

— Ron Padgett

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do,…

— Ron Padgett

“This for That What will I have for breakfast? I wish I had some plums like the ones in Williams’s poem. He…

— Ron Padgett

Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to…

— Ron Padgett

“When I wake up earlier than you and you are turned to face me, face on the pillow and hair spread around,…

— Ron Padgett