Here, for a moment, we are joined.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

art is a mode of stalking

Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’