I Write What's Given Me To Write.

My Sense Of A Poem - My Notion Of How You Revise - Is: You Get Yourself Into A State Where What You Are Intensely Conscious Of Is Not Why You Wrote It Or How You Wrote It, But What You Wrote.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

No One Can Write Like Vallejo And Not Sound Like A Fraud. He's Just Too Much Himself And Not You.

I Was Very Lucky To Have A Mother Who Encouraged Me To Become A Poet.

I Write What's Given Me To Write.