A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.