Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.