I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes car….

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. ….

Bugs Bunny is my muse..

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was t….

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable..

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found..

It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkab….

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye..

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest..

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane..

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secr….

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow..

You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than….

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible..

And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the ….

Write the poem only you can write..

Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. O….

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is i….

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly b….

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensib….

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly..