Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.