I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Love and respect should be reciprocal

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.