I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall.

Wisdom is the ability to read the unwritten.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.