If you can't be free, be a mystery.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

What writing does is to reveal.