When did you first feel what Pound called "the impulse" to write?
Charles Simic: When I noticed in high school that one of my friends was attracting the best-looking girls by writing them sappy love poems.
You wanted to be "unclaimed?"
Charles Simic: At the airport, just like a suitcase. You come there and you see this bag that has been sitting there two hours and no one has picked it up.
