The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can..

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poe….

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action..

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to make a sonnet that works….