Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

Never look down on someone because they offering a gift which is small in size

The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.......That's what's happening... now you are in a place where you can find nobody.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.