There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there's nothing but light when I see you.

Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

God grants victory to perseverance.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.