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- In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
- Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.