There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.