I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps. . . so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.
Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.
I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.