"A metaphor is a sign of desperation when we need another world to describe what we are feeling. Metaphors are about d…"

"A poem should go beyond what you already know, and if it’s going to go beyond what you already know, a poem might say…"

"What happens at the beginning of your poem has to—because it’s a poem—be transformed by the end of your poem. So if t…"

"take Jericho Brown, telling too much necessary truth in all his work, but especially "Bullet Points," on the violence…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."