So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a little digital hope.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins.

I'm looking for parts that will challenge me comedically. I would love to be on a multicam sitcom one day, kind of like Friends. I love making people laugh and would like to continue to do so!

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita