A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
Poetry is a way of living...a human activity like baking bread or playing basketball.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
