Each moment is a place you've never been.

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.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

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

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

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.