Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Every breath is a resurrection.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

A muffin what? Are you asking me to eat you or something?

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

One of the things that makes this show unique, in terms of an experience, is that when you do a show that has a large cast, scheduling is a very difficult thing.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.