“Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.”

“Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.”

“Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.”

“What will you do now with the gift of your left life?”

“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”

“No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.”

“Beauty is fame.”