Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.