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?'

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.