To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

Every breath is a resurrection.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow")

I told Jerome I will ring Egg every day because he’s my pal and not because I want him back in the band to write our second album. - Clipper

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.