I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.