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.

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

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.