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.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

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.

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

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

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