Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.