No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.