Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

I like what they're doing. I think they're doing a good job, and I know that a lot of people are upset by them. These are great young men and women, and they're bold, and they are saying to America, "Something's going to change." I'm very proud of them.