How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

All those big words produce disgust today.

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Don't sit around waiting for it to happen. Get out there and make it happen!

And I was stuck here at Warrior Freaks R Us.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.