Attention Is The Beginning Of Devotion.

Poetry Is One Of The Original Arts, And It Began, As Did All The Fine Arts, Within The Original Wilderness Of The Earth.

I Try To Be Good But Sometimes A Person Just Has To Break Out And Act Like The Wild And Springy Thing One Used To Be. It's Impossible Not To Remember Wild An Want It Back.

Writing A Poem ... Is A Kind Of Possible Love Affair Between Something Like The Heart (that Courageous But Also Shy Factory Of Emotion) And The Learned Skills Of The Conscious Mind.

I Grew Up In A Sad, Depressed Place. I Got Out. Poetry Saved My Life.

I Very Much Wished Not To Be Noticed, And To Be Left Alone, And I Sort Of Succeeded.