Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
Conflict is the soul of literature.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.