The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

You taste like Heaven, but God knows you're built for sin

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

I don't like piano solos.