Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I write poems to find out why I write them

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

The best thing you can do in life is to love unconditionally and endlessly.

When the lion is wounded do not stroke its mare.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.