Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

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

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.