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Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
holocaust
The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond ... a good feeling about his art.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Poetry's medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me.