Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.