How could one create life with someone who represented death?

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.