Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing.

The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

To know you have enough is to be rich.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.