Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

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

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.