To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

Read books. They are good for us.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.