I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Education is the realization of hope for the future.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

A deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Children and fools speak true.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.