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.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.