Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and... inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in th...e direction of greater freedom--as is usual with most artists learning a trade. It takes courage, however, to leave all props behind, to cast oneself, like Matisse, upon pure space. I still await that confidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever liv...e where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in t...he factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who decides what is margin and what is text? Who decides where the borders of the homeland run? Absences and silences are potent. ...It is the eloquent margins which frame the official history of the land. As for geography, there are divisions and boundary lines that fissure any state more deeply than the moat it digs around the nationhood. In every country there are gaping holes. People fall through them and disappear. Yet on every side there are also doors to a wider place, a covert geography under sleep where all the waters meet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for your...self. Face the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »