You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.