“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just to...” — Philip Levine Quote

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

When someone commits fraud against the state, they are stealing from all Virginians.

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

I do believe that voter fraud has taken place.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.