All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.