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.

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

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.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.