The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

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

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

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

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