Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In the end I would rather wonder than know

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.