A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

There comes a time when only anger is love.