“I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.”

“NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of thei...”

“Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.”

“I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that...”

“I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I thi...”

“I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”