The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.