Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

The purpose of the church is outreach

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.