Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.