You need a danger to be safe in.

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.It is beautiful that they have to disappear.It's like the time you said I love you madly.That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

Once I am alive, I still have the chance to live rightly for the rest of my life.

May you find grace and power of the Holy Spirit to give you hope for a new life.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.