I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

The bond market is debating with itself what the intent of the Fed is. I don't think the Fed has a multi-step process. They are taking it step by step.

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.