I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
Well the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words that is to say the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
Well my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually to learn how to write...
Well I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven writing...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
