I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.