From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.