My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.