One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Just when it's the two of us, he doesn't whine as much.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

It feels so good to tell the truth.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.