Truth has not such an urgent air.
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.