We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

I gave my voice to poetry.

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

I don't like to generalize, but if you see a guy with his shirt tucked into his shorts, he's probably killed three or four children.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.