If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.
No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.
You're only as good as your last book.
If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want