My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Greatness can only be bought through time.

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.