I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

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

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.