If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.