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

A word is elegy to what it signifies.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

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

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.