You are someone and you have a right to your life..

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love..

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters..

In the world of imagination, all things belong..

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of troub….

Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a….

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it..

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything..

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone..

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time..

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will..

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance..

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is sho….

Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where the….

...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must subm….

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better..

If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. ….

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say..

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you..

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive..