We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

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.