Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

People who cannot feel punish those who do.