It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate.
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?
We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.