From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

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.

Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let brain accompany it.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

free fall to your quite smile to capture you and you propel me to death, all that we write destroys then heals

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible