There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry