Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

I am not an African. I am an American..

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a ….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." ….

I lived and languished..

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

Because love, love never finishes..

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?.

It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living..

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it..

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary..

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It is poetry that changes everything..