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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.