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

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

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

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.

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.

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.