A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoopin the oats, to air in the lunglet evening come.Let it come, as it will, and don'tbe afraid. God does not leave uscomfortless, so let evening come.

Until your last breath, you may not be able to see the true beauty of life.

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

It was me, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.