You are the books you read!!!
Heaven and stars at the feet of the lovers.
The frequency of your heart receives love.
I am ashes where once I was fire...
So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
If water was beer I'd be a teetotaler
Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
All good poems are victories over something.
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
all the words all the poems know my warm, soft spots.
Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.