Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.