A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

History is where tensions were.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.