Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I can generate attention quickly.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.