but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Melanin Fiercely Poppin’ on Purpose.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.