Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

Today delete it

Never be timid about your own pleasure. Don't be ashamed to come.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Save in the office and affairs of love.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!