Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

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.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.