The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

Stay focused on the mission.

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.