Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation..

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennia….

When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when yo….

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like..

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone..

The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks..

I learned early on that I'd rather not be taught something somebody else's way, I'd rather do it the most organic way I know. So, whatever I end up w….

I was hired as a penciler..

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way..

God is always at work around you..

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time..

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry..

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poe….

Language is fossil Poetry..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..