Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
Only where there is language is there world.
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.