"A Poet’s Progress" by James Longenbach in The New York Times"

"Narrater Abu Hurairah. Allah's Apostle said, "Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not har…"

"There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…"

"Dicko: Hayley, hair looks great by the way. Curls are good for you. I've got to say, look, I don't think yo…"

"One of my biggest obsessions today is that senior people must give bright 25-year olds the opportunity to c…"

"All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unkno…"

"I save about twenty drafts — that's ten meg of disc space — and the last one contains all the final alterat…"