Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.