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A fever is an expression of inner rage.

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.