A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

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.

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.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

There are enough blessings for everyone.

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.