I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

She's like a hurricane on crystal meth.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.