I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
From Mary Oliver
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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