Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

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 words secret and sacred are siblings.