The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.