We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

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

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.

I have been eating poetry.

Each moment is a place you've never been.