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.

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.

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

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these. She a window flower. And he a winter breeze.

Not yesterday I learned to know,The love of bare November days,Before the coming of the snow.