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

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

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.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.