You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.