Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.