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

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

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.

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

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

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