You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

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