Writers, Especially Poets, Are Particularly Prone To

That Soldiers Do Terrible Things During Wartime Should Not Surprise Us.

I Believe Poetry Has Very Little To Do With Memory.

I Became An Electrician After High School. But I Always Had This Thing In Me To Write. But It Was Always A Little Shameful. To Say You Were A Poet Was Saying You Were Kind Of Crazy, And I Carried That Around For A Long Time. I Still Kind Of Carry That. And I Think It Might Be True, Actually.

Everything We Do, I'd Imagine, Influences Everything We Will Do.

What You Fear Your Whole Life Comes To Pass. You End Up Living Toward It, You Spend Your Life Running From It But Your Foot Is Nailed To The Sidewalk. You Circle Around It Until You Wear Yourself Own.