A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

I am a huge sports fan.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.