Quotes About Evolution

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Language is fossil poetry

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine...

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

My life needs editing.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Politics is applied biology.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.