Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
All things want to float.
Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.
Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.
A Poet never denies creativity entrance.
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousan...
Poetry is a mug's game.
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps...
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without...
The bats inebriate the sky . . .
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am...
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spr...
Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!
The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone.