Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town ove….

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits..

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it..

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her..

There is no song to your singing..

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea l….

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on..

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away..

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me..

Beware of advice-even this..

All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need….

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see w….

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely..

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends..

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'.

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted hea….

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by..

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it..

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child i….

If I added to their pride of America, I am happy..