Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

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.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I like pink."Lucius sniffed. "It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.- Kristine

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.