Poetry is the posing of a question whose only answer is poetry.

Poetry is heart medicine.

The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.

The poet in me liberates the philosopher.

Unless you embellish, you can't tell the truth.

We're all going to die someday and all the people we love are going to die someday. If that's not a reason for writing poetry, I don't know what is.

The best interpretation of a poem is the poem itself.

Poetry exists in the gap between the known and the unknown.

Poetry is for suckers, and I'm a sucker for poetry.