I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you’re doing.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry – including my own, mostly – sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I’ll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

The market is finally realizing that the earnings in these tech sectors have cyclical sensitivity - and the risks in the business cycles both in the United States and Europe are going up. Our latest assessment is that even at current levels the sector could still be 15 to 20 percent overvalued.

The market seems to be less prone to panic when there's an earnings warning, ... There's the idea out there that perhaps the bad news has already been discounted in the market.

The market seems to be less prone to panic when there's an earnings warning. There's the idea out there that perhaps the bad news has already been discounted in the market.

And it was probably the best thing that happened to us.

The guys battled tonight, they battled all year,

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

All poetry is political, to some degree.