... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Don't play to beat someone, play to win.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

I took Instagram off my phone! I took it off because I found I was looking at it too much.

This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.