You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.