I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I've still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.