A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.