In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.