You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.