I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

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

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn..

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

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

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

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 ….

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

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

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..