If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In the end I would rather wonder than know

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

The complex known as feelings of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

Without fear, you can walk much better in fearful places!

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Songwriting is my gift from God