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

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

End with an image and don't explain.

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

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