If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.
I collect men with interesting names.
I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.
It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.