To be a poet you have to experiment.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, “Dear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!” and initiate a general shutdown.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

I have had no professional training.