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.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

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.