Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

I am grateful to be alive.

I didn't spend an afternoon doing my hair and makeup to go on demon-duty.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.