I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

No man can be skillful without first investing his time into relentless rehearsals.

I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.