I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
The birds are silent in the woods. Just wait: soon enough You will be quiet too
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.