A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.