I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.