A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and…

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the s…

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.