American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Try to live as if there were a God

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Exchange is creation.