I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..

You won't see Moonves on Twitter..

We only kill each other.

We are, after all, homo economicus..

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do..

Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do..

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin..

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears..

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem..

I never learn my lesson..

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself..

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young..

Hitler was a teetotalitarian..

I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis..

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children..