A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.
Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
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.
The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.