If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.

Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.

Enemies are just friends in reverse.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.