He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Dreams have a profound way of waking us up.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

Clever women are hard to intimidate.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.