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

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.

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.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.