Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want.

Indeed, the victory by the force of weapons shows just one's tenure and occupancy. Conversely, the real victory breezes only by dialogue and love.

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.