For A Poet, Making Poems Is A

Your Life Is The One Place You Have To Spend Yourself Fully--wild, Generous, Drastic--in An Unrationed Profligacy Of Self ... And In That Split Second When You Understand That You Finally Are About To Die-to Uncreate The World No Time To Do It Over No More Chances--that Instant When You Realize Your Conscious Existence Is Truly Flaring Nova, Won't You Want To Have Used Up All-all-the Splendor That You Are?

... Life Is A Comedy Far Darker Than Drama. It Just Takes Time To Learn What To Smile At.

Every Actor Knows That Tragedy, Being Linear And Inevitable, Is Taxing - But Comedy, Which Depends On The Element Of Surprise, Is The Hardest Act Of All.

The Confucian Concept And Chinese Ideograms For 'woman' And For 'slave' Are The Same.

Oppression Is Something That One Group Of People Commits Against Another Group Specifically Because Of A Threatening Characteristic Shared By The Latter Group.