It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

Our every thought reflects our level of awareness, consciousness, and love for this amazing world that we call home.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.