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.

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

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

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

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.