Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

What we want is never simple.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

Spring is the shortest season.

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

Time spent effectively can be compensated

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

God looks out for fools and babies.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.