Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Please don't allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!