To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

We're going to be World Champions...forever.

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.