The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.