The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.

Policy-makers continue to discover that they cannot solve today’s problems with yesterday’s mindsets

Solitude shows us what should be society shows us what we are.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls.