Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.