Flight is intolerable contradiction.

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

The journey is my home.