Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.
How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.