I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

the wages of empire is myopia

Prayer is not only for answers but a spiritual act.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

I want you, Kaylee, like I’ve never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.