.. 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.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!