ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it.

Sometimes when you are falling down you grow wings to fly.

Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

It's a book. It's mine. And it's done.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.