A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.

People don’t have Guts to leave their Ruts because of their ''Buts''.

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

"I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.