Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Soulmates don’t choose each other

Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Love is the heartbeat of all life.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.