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

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

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

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

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.