I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

First fight. Then fiddle.