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?'

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

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

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.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.