Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that I think it is missing the point of the American tradition which is always apolitical even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

From reading a previous answer you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.