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"So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
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"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
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"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea."
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"So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."
Poetry
"I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort."
Effort
"Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear."
Will
"Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough."
Life
"If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done."
Language
"But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history."
History
"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
Experience
"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events."
Love
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