And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

i have a hurricane of thoughts thatsimply evolves within me andbewilder my inner soul .

The issue is not what you may be facing, rather your interpretation of it. Always think in a positive light to create a better world for yourself and others.

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.