Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.