Every breath is a resurrection.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do.

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.