I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.

No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.