The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.