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

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."

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 is the most bodily of the arts.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

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.