I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.