“One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is th...” — Edward Hirsch Quote

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

I love Miu Miu for its playfulness; Chanel is cool because it's classic and edgy, and Marc Jacobs really captures the spirit of youth in my opinion.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.