I always knew I would adopt. Always.
I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
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.
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
I have always been a House of Commons man.
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.