Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

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

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

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.