Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
You cannot play for safety and make art.
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.
I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
As we raise ourselves in the spiritual consciousness, we are better able to solve the problems of life. We are happy. We are at home in every environment.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.