The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment