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.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

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

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.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.