The Supreme Morality Of Art Is To

A Poem Has Secrets That The Poet Knows Nothing Of.

What Makes The Engine Go? Desire, Desire, Desire.

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

A Poet Needs To Keep His Wilderness Alive Inside Him. To Remain A Poet After Forty Requires An Awareness Of Your Darkest Africa, That Part Of Yourself That Will Never Be Tamed.

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.