It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.