I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In the end I would rather wonder than know

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.

You are what you love not who loves you"- Fall Out Boy

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

It's not an idea until you write it down.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.