Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.