Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

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.

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

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

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

End with an image and don't explain.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.