I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

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.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

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

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

We suffer each other to have each other a while.