The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.