Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

endless hope, endless disappointment.

Your feelings are your signals of deep truths inside of you. They're the language of your soul, and they need you to listen to them.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.