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

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

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

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.

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.

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

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