Sam Hamill Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. September 5, 1943
Birthday: September 5
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.
source: Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003. 
topic: Men, Wings, Order, My Own Life, Kenneth, Fifteen Years Old
