I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different community. I was talking to Galway Kinnell one day, and he said that there was an audience for poetry up until about 1920 and then, from that point on, the poets and the critics drifted.

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.