Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Science says that and sociable and not in both shoes you could be happy.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.