I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

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

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

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.