Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Patience is a muscle you need to exercise or you will lose it.

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.