Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.

she died of internal weeping

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.