"I think that's what most writers do. They sit down and concentrate. It's as if you tap into your alpha waves. Otherwi…"

""Lament" is in some ways a praise song, a love poem to the English language, which, together with other languages lik…"

"Familial relationships are never simple, are they? I think if you had a simple family life, you would have been very …"

"There's so much of this mixing occurring all over the world, and the political stability and openness to the transfor…"

"The sooner you learn that you have to be independent, that you are alone, and if there are people to help you it's a …"

"Poetry is what has saved me through the years. I started writing when I was about nine. I discovered that I could go …"

"The political and social struggle for civil rights itself can transform the outsider into a citizen."

"(What does that say about the creative process of poetry?) I suppose it is an example of the inexplicability of the c…"

"It is poetry, she says, that helped the rebellious and restless nomad find herself and her place. "Listening and tell…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"