I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.