Quotes from Alan DeNiro

Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.