We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.