Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few old papers flo….

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup..

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday..

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address..

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful..

A poem is a record of a discovery..

In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of something special about them. I'm trying to m….

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness..

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road..

I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full blad….

I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job, and I took the first job that cam….

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it..

Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , ….

It may very well be that people in San Francisco don't think we have any culture in Nebraska, but we have a different culture, and it's a very deep c….

If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge..

a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could….

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right..

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing..

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child..

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart..

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if t….