The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.

Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

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

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Men aren't called pricks, but women are called cunts.

Some poems are art because of their passion.