Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

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.

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

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

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.