Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.