Poems Are Other People's Snapshots In Which

If I Believe In Anything, It Is In The Dark Night Of The Soul. Awe Is My Religion, And Mystery Is Its Church.

The Highest Levels Of Consciousness Are Wordless.

When People Ask Me How To Find Happiness In Life I Tell Them, First Learn How To Cook.

The Religion Of The Short Poem, In Every Age And In Every Literature, Has A Single Commandment: Less Is Always More. The Short Poem Rejects Preamble And Summary. It's About All And Everything, The Metaphysics Of A Few Words Surrounded By Much Silence. …the Short Poem Is A Match Flaring Up In A Dark Universe.

One Writes Because One Has Been Touched By The Yearning For And The Despair Of Ever Touching The Other.