... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Loving a woman is always political.

I cannot get close to any you.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

she wanted because art

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I really need you here with me boy were going Round-and Round!

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.