Follow your own weird.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.