I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty a cat lady.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

You can't really imagine music without technology.