A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.