Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
I don't want to be a Major League coach.