I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

I have always loved too much, or not enough.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

There must be a mistake, " I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.