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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.