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

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

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

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

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

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

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