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

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.