The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.