The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

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.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

People are lot like peanuts...It's not what's on the outside that matters, and that damn shell just gets shucked into the trash anyhow.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

Denying racism is the new racism.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.