They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.