I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

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.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.