The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

the wages of empire is myopia

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.