The burial of feelings has begun.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made.

They can be totally insane, but fans are our lifeblood.