I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.