Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.