People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.