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

Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

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