...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

Language can do what it can’t say.

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.