Quotes on Madman

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.