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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."