Quotes from Thomas Lux

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.

There's plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.