That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Every thing is changing every minute.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

This is Annabeth, ” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Occasionally all you need is a minute of courage to break into a world of opportunity.

Daily communication with God must be desired and pursued above all other things.

Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the Clarke awning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.