We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.