What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

the wages of empire is myopia

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!

I eat stickers all the time dude!

I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.