For example I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say 'Oh my God. Demetri you're working at the White House.'
We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with ourselves poetry.
Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through...
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school -...
If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
