Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.
I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.
I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.
I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or we don't have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it's an era where people's anxiety about what's going on and need to understand what's happening around them has created a real demand for news coverage that's dedicated to filling that need.
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.