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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.