Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.
Much of our lives involves the word “no. ” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way. ” But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.
The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.