Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I write poems to find out why I write them

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

All great virtues become great men.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.