Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

the wages of empire is myopia

Happy are those who expect nothing

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?