You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

God’s Word must come to a person and enter them in order to change their life.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily."No.""Elvis?""I told you, it's supernatural.

Dare to Differ

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

Drawing is an idea more than fact.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.