It's best to be ruthless with the past.
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.
Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.
While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.