Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.
Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.
Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.
For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.’