A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.