I am so hip even my errors are correct

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.