The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.