You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.