I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
No man can give me any word but Wait.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
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.