Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for u….

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution..

Memory is a poet, not an historian..

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die..

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first p….

Poetry is telling something to someone..

Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and te….

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover somet….

I am living. I remember you..

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven..

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a….

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved..