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

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

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

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

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

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.