I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

Need is not quite belief.

Mood can be as important as sense.