Exchange is creation.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

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

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness