Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.