It's very hard to write humor.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

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

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

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

The future is always beginning now.