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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
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No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
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Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
