“A poem is like a score for the human voice.”
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ--from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”
“The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!”
“I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!”