The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

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

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

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

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

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

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.