Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.