Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

What you plan is too small for you to live.