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.
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.