So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. – Tracy K. Smith
While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney
Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce
