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.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

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

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

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.