A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

I like to read because it kills me.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.