I’ve been here before, dreaming myselfbackwards, among grappling hooks of light.True to the seasons, I’ve lived every wordspoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

I am this space my body believes in.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think of language as our first music.

I said that love heals from inside.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.