If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

I like anything that's edible.