I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.