I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Poetry is meant to be heard.
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
