“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.”
“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that weird paradoxical, poetic sort of way.”
“Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. ”
“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”