Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

.. 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.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

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