The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

The only normal people are the ones we haven't gotten to know yet.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.