The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

We are what we think. Think great, be great.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.

I like to think of myself as 'hot-larious' I'm cute, but I'm totally approachable.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.