There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.