I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtere...

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life....

I'm a night person. My best times are midn...

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name...

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't...

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I...

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most...

Poetry is language at its most distille...

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtere...

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things t...

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have p...

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I thi...