Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.