Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
Find something only you can say
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
Now we know everything about golf equipment. A player doesn't have to know diddly about golf clubs, because we know what a golf club can do and how it can fit to you. I hate to harp on my era because people don't like that, but 30 years back was so different. I didn't have maxed-out clubs. The clubs now are amazing.
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.