I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

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.

Never keep score in marriage

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

I don't know Kitten, " she said, zipping up her money belt, "but I'll tell you one thing--if it were a book, I wouldn't be able to put it down.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

I like seeing people that are into my music, it shows me that it doesn't matter, you can't judge a person based on how they look, and that's just how my music is.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.