I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Well, there's no other person like me. Ain't nobody else like me. It's flattering. I don't like to do it too much because I get tired of me. But people ask, so I get to do it every now and then.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

We must exist right here, right now!

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.