Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.