“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.”
“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
“Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.”
“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92”
“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”