I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”-Caroline to Ursual.

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

No collusion, no obstruction. Comey is a leaker.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my passion, my fury, my soul. Shall i explain further?

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.