Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

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.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

I'm glad that I'm female.