I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

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.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

What a great pleasure to work for your living?

Put McCall and I together and nothing can stop us." ...That's what he wanted. A woman to stand by him and conquer whatever they set their mind to.

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth, OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.