Poetry Is An Orphan Of Silence.

A Poem Is An Instant Of Lucidity In Which The Entire Organism Participates.

In Their Effort To Divorce Language And Experience, Deconstructionist Critics Remind Me Of Middle-class Parents Who Do Not Allow Their Children To Play In The Street.

The Poem I Want To Write Is Impossible. A Stone That Floats.

Found Objects, Chance Creations, Ready-mades (mass-produced Items Promoted Into Art Objects, Such As Duchamp's "fountain"-urinal As Sculpture) Abolish The Separation Between Art And Life. The Commonplace Is Miraculous If Rightly Seen.

The Secret Wish Of Poetry Is To Stop Time.