Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.