In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

The end of art is peace.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.