I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

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 future is always beginning now.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.

The burial of feelings has begun.