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.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

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 heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.