Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Every breath is a resurrection.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

History is the insight to foresight

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

Oh, yes. She’s still here,” Maxon said, not letting his eyes wander from Gavril’s face. “And I plan on keeping her here for quite a while.

You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.