Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.