Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a little digital hope.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Friendship/Relationship... all is about the deal and business... give or take!?

If we don’t know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.