Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.