Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.

Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.