We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

I like an ending that's both a door and a window.