Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
