I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

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.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.

Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.

When you're looking for successNever forget to live in happiness.

The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.