High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

Ask Jesus to live in you & fill you with His Holy Spirit, & thank Him that you’re now God’s child

Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us!

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.