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

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

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

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

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

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

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