The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

What are men? Children who doubt.

We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.