Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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.

I have been cut in two.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Poetry to me is prayer.

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