Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.