Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

Good writing is rhythm.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

Keep your friendships in repair.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.