Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.