For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

If you were mine, I’d make love to you every chance I got, so whenever we were apart, you’d still feel me inside you.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

one more creature dizzy with love

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."