Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
Memory is a poet, not an historian.
Poetry is telling something to someone.
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.