I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.