There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

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.

Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.