Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.