While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation.

Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.