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.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
I never said most of the things I said.
