“Life is hell but death is worse.- from "No Deposit”

“Death of a part is agony- from "The Red Branch”

“Exiled by death from people we have known,We are reduced again by years, and tryTo call them back and clothe the barren bone,Not to admit that people ever die.-from "Exile”

“Nothing I do will make death disappearOr let your shudder or your knowledge go.See the world whole, and see it clearly then,A globe of dirt crusted with bones of men.If we walk, we walk on graves.- from "Shudder”

“We die of habits,deplorable oneslike merely living:finally fatal.- from "Tubes”

“We are all dyingof something, always,but our degrees ofawareness differ- from "Tubes”

“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine”