American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag.

En las ligeras todas las cosas son visible, pero en la oscuridad, muchas cosas son imaginable.Translated: In the light all things are visible, but in the dark many things are imaginable.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.