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

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

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.