If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.