I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Be careful to your skill it might be kill it's makes you ill.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

Michael Jackson was my inspiration. Love and blessings.