If you live long enough you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit never quit never quit.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't...
There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.
But for me being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being...
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.
