You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

Let's not just reach for the stars, but become the stars everyone reaches for.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Poetry is the memory of language

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.