I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

Business associates? Ouch. That’s worse than friends

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.