One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.