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

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.

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.

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

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.

Everybody is right when there are no wrongs.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.