...few Young Poets [are] Testing Their Poems

The Unconscious Creates, The Ego Edits.

Poetry Is The Enemy Of The Poem.

Poetry Is Language Surprised In The Act Of Changing Into Meaning.

A Poet Needs To Keep His Wilderness Alive Inside Him. To Remain A Poet After Forty Requires An Awareness Of Your Darkest Africa, That Part Of Yourself That Will Never Be Tamed.

Rhythm To Me Is Essentially What Hopkins Called The Taste Of Self. I Taste Myself As Rhythm.