But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose I can only do what I am given and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and yes read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Still language is resilient and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry is life distilled.

In the total darkness poetry is still there and it is there for you.

A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a metaphoric connection as any poetry does.

You know bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet and you know there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Well I still write poetry but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I still read Donne particularly his love poems.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like until you buy the vinyl record you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

I was very active in the peace movement still am.

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

I get those fleeting beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

The values the programs the formula the determination and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services more than anyone they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.