If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.