Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.