“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.”

“Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.”

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

“In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is other writers who create them .... A writer can have published thirty-seven volumes, but if that writer doesn't interest other writers, they will all molder in the library and nobody will ever want to read them again.”

“One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”