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.

Every breath is a resurrection.

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.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

A true heart may not talk with you everyday or may not meet you every time but always thinks about you and your memories

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.