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

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

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

In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

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.

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.