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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

.. 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.