If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.