Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.