I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

It's very hard to write humor.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

The burial of feelings has begun.