When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
All systems require myths for their longevity.
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
I think it's very sad, when you look at Barack Obama, as an example, lands Air Force One in China, and they don't want to put out stairs to get off the plane. And he has to use the stairs that mechanics use to get up and down to fix the plane. They wouldn't give him stairs.