I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

A woman is a blue sky with flying white clouds of emotions.

‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet." He almost purred. I gulped.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.