What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.