Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.