"Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, …"

"Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart."

"Mr. Sandburg possesses a powerful imagination, which plays over and about his realistic themes and constantly ennoble…"

"[the story] "Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds" is a tribute to Amy Lowell, I've done a lot of what you might call metalit…"

"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."

"An interviewer once asked him whether he had any advice for young writers starting out. "No," he answered, "if a writ…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."