We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

Why does she have wings?'So she can fly.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.