I am not political as a person.

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.

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

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.

If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.