It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.