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

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

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

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.

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.

You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your two choices.

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?