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A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.