Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.

There is nothing to lose in this life.

When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.