I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.