The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

A continual fellowship with God gives us His wisdom to properly evaluate the events that are occurring

Immerse yourself in the customer's world and get to know their struggles and triumphs inside out.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.