I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.My Spiritual Guides and I Le mie Guide Spirituali ed io

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Football is not a job, but my best therapy

Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.