Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

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

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

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.

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.

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.

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