I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I write poems to find out why I write them

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

A good teacher is a determined person.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.