People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.