The future is always beginning now.

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

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

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

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

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.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.