Exchange is creation.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

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

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

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.