It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

Anything that was created today were once an unknown insecurity far beyond the next chapter of your life!

Damn it, I should be the only one allowed to drool over him. I found him first! Or something not as stupid.

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

I'm a business person at heart.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.