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

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

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

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

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.