The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.