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

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.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.