Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.
We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.
How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!
The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.