Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.