In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
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.