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

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

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.

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.

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

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