The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.