A Poet Needs To Keep His Wilderness

I Want To Write Poems That Are Natural, Luminous, Deep, Spare. I Dream Of An Art So Transparent That You Can Look Through And See The World.

Memory Is Each Man's Poet-in-residence.

An Old Poet Ought Never To Be Caught With His Technique Showing.

The First Task Of The Poet Is To Create The Person Who Will Write The Poems.

I Associate The Garden With The Whole Experience Of Being Alive, And So, There Is Nothing In The Range Of Human Experience That Is Separate From What The Garden Can Signify In Its Eagerness And Its Insistence, And In Its Driving Energy To Live -- To Grow, To Bear Fruit.