Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

ONE ACT OF KINDNESS MIGHT BE THAT GAME CHANGER FOR YOUR DESTINY AND GENERATIONS.

Both of my parents have been actors there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.