Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.