Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.