Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.