I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
I always entertain great hopes.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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.