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

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

One writes in order to feel.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Try to live as if there were a God