The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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.
If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.