Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I write what's given me to write.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.

Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.