20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.

I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.