I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.