I don't act to live. I live to act..
Now is the only thing that exists..
I always wear make-up as I've never seen the point of looking less than your best..
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fu….
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - t….
Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!.
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate.".
A woman who is loved always has success..
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..
I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all..
Great courage will be required to choose the right..
I took a lot from friends, but also me..
When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it..
I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet..
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reade….
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead..
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a Frenc….
When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it..
I'm always looking for good music..