Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.