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

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

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

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

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.

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

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.