And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

It's very hard to write humor.

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

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

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